Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
206 quotations
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.